William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
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#2I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
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#3I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
I've read shogun and now i'm watching the latest TV show. Both are amazing.
Is the wife he's buried with Japanese? And he had one in England too?
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#4For folk interested in learning more about what historians and similar think of the novel, a compilation of essays on the subject titled "Learning from SHOGUN:
Japanese History and Western Fantasy" has been made available courtesy of the compilation's editor, Henry Smith.:
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#5James Clavell wrote Shogun which is (very, very) loosely based on this. A fun read in any case.
Re: William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
#6I live on the Miura peninsular not too far from William Adams fiefdom. It’s possible to walk up the hill from Anjinzuka Station (The navigator’s hill) and see his and his wife’s grave.
I've read shogun and now i'm watching the latest TV show. Both are amazing. Is the wife he's buried with Japanese? And he had one in England too?
Yes, he never returned to England. The Shogunate declared "William Adams" dead and "Miura Anjin" born, by which legal fiction he could remarry.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've read shogun and now i'm watching the latest TV show. Both are amazing. Is the wife he's buried with Japanese? And he had one in England too?
Yes, he never returned to England. The Shogunate declared "William Adams" dead and "Miura Anjin" born, by which legal fiction he could remarry.
Was there really a legitimate legal issue needed to be accounted for at the time, across these borders? Additionally, ostensibly to Adams, it would have been something he would have to answer to his creator for moreso than the crown or Shogun, if he was a true believer anyway.
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#8Hypothetically, would he have been on Mizu's list?
Re: William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
#9James Clavell wrote Shogun which is (very, very) loosely based on this. A fun read in any case.
Also recently released as a series on Hulu. Pretty faithful to the book from what I've seen so far.
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#10Samurai William by Giles Milton is a great read about William Adams